Homewood’s ARThouse Finds A New Home

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) — Hale Street in Homewood at the turn of the 20th century was a neighborhood for middle-class African-American families making decent livings working in the nearby mansions of men who made Pittsburgh an industrial powerhouse.

The passing years were not kind to Homewood; it’s streets stalked by violence.

But Vanessa German looks at the neighborhood through the eyes of an artist.

A New York gallery exhibit of her work last November was a huge success.

“It’s now in museums, and in great collections in New York,” says German. “And that’s the work from Homewood that is now supporting the ARThouse.”